Uses of a processing activity in Privacy Management

A processing activity is a record that processes personal data. Examples of such records are a business process or a business application of an organization. Processing activities enable the privacy management teams to understand how personal information is being processed or used.

To understand more details about a processing activity, refer to Processing activities. A processing activity helps the privacy teams to record the following details:

• Processing activity details such as the business unit it belongs to, data subject type, data storage location, and so on.
• [PI] Information objects that are being processed as a part of this processing activity.
• Past and ongoing privacy assessments.
• Controls that are applied to the processing activity and the respective control attestation responses.
• Issues and policy exceptions associated with this processing activity.

The following image shows the Overview tab of a processing activity.

Figure 1. Processing activity record

• Workflow of a processing activity
  A processing activity workflow helps the privacy analysts to manage the life cycle of a processing activity.